USPA NEWS - Only from 19 October to 4 November, 2018, the Army Museum of Paris is welcoming a Unique, Immersive Game Experience that has been developed in Partnership with Ubisoft. This Unusual Guided Tour offers you the Opportunity to enter into the Heart of the Hôtel National des Invalides in Paris. You discover Anecdotes, Unusual Facts and Legends all along the Tour.

Only from 19 October to 4 November, 2018, the Army Museum of Paris is welcoming a Unique, Immersive Game Experience that has been developed in Partnership with Ubisoft. This Unusual Guided Tour offers you the Opportunity to enter into the Heart of the Hôtel National des Invalides in Paris. You discover Anecdotes, Unusual Facts and Legends all along the Tour. The Guide begins with a Presentation of the History and Architecture of Les Invalides. For example, you discover the Splendid Reception Halls of the Army Museum, the Ornano Salons. The Iconic and Oversized Spaces the Royal Room, the Church of the Dome ( A Military Pantheon in which the Graves of Turenne, Vauban, Foch, Lyautey and Napoleon I are housed), and the Tomb of Napoleon. Armed with your Smartphone and a Map of the Hotel National des Invalides, you make sure to penetrate into Napoleon's Secret.

You spend 90 Minutes discovering the Hôtel National des Invalides as you’ve never seen it before, revealing Napoleon‘s Secret. During the Experience, you’ll be told about a Mysterious Object brought back from Egypt, the Order of the Templars and the Brotherhood of the Assassins. Choose your side, use your eagle Vision and gain Access to Parts of the Building that are usually closed to the Public in order to solve the Puzzle.

Napoléon Bonaparte (1769 – 1821), born Napoleone di Buonaparte, and later Napoleon I, was a Corsican Military and Political Leader who ruled First as the First Consul of France from 1799 to 1804, then as Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815. He is One of the Most Celebrated Personages in the History of the West. He revolutionized Military Organization and Training. He sponsored the Napoleonic Code, the Prototype of Later Civil-Law Codes, reorganized Education, and established the Long-Lived Concordat with the Papacy.

Napoleon’s many Reforms left a Lasting Mark on the Institutions of France and of much of western Europe. But his Driving Passion was the Military Expansion of French Dominion, and, though at his Fall he left France Little Larger than it had been at the Outbreak of the Revolution in 1789, he was almost unanimously revered during his Lifetime and until the End of the Second Empire under his Nephew Napoleon III as One of History’s Great Heroes.

Bonaparte shared Voltaire’s Belief that the People needed a Religion. Personally, he was Indifferent to Religion : in Egypt he had said that he wanted to become a Muslim. Yet he considered that Religious Peace had to be restored to France... Bonaparte’s Conception of International Peace differed from that of the British, for whom the Treaty of Amiens represented an Absolute Limit beyond which they were Under No Circumstances prepared to go. The British even hoped to take back some of the Concessions they had been forced to make. For Bonaparte, on the Other Hand, the Treaty of Amiens marked the Starting Point for a New French Ascendancy.

In the Hope of Consolidating his Own Position, Fouché suggested to Bonaparte that the Best Way to discourage Conspiracy would be to transform the Life Consulate into a Hereditary Empire, which, because of the Fact that there would be an Heir, would remove all Hope of changing the Regime by Assassination. Bonaparte readily accepted the Suggestion, and on May 28, 1804, the Empire was proclaimed. The Imperial Regime also instituted its Symbols and Titles. Princely Titles were brought back for the Members of Napoleon’s Family in 1804, and an Imperial Nobility was created in 1808...

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